CAI Glossary of Terms

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Earth
Earth is a carbon and hydrogen based planet that is approximately 4.5 billion years old and has a diameter of 7,900 miles. Earth is the third planet and about 93 million miles from its Sun. The Earth's Sun is located 28,000 light years from the center of its Galaxy called the Milky Way, is about 20 light years above the galaxy's equatorial plane and is in the "Orion" spiral arm. To help keep things in perspective, at minimum,  there are probably 200 billion stars in the Milky Way alone and 200 billion galaxies in the part of the universe that we can see.
Earthbound Spirit
A spirit whose physical body has died and yet the Spirit continues to remain in the 2nd Physical plane versus moving on to Astral or higher planes. The primary reasons for this are a) someone or some group not letting go of their psychical / psychological attachments to the human they knew (holding the Spirit back), b) the Spirit having business they still want to finish in the physical plane, c) the Spirit not realizing or refusing to realize their human body is dead or worst of all, d) they committed suicide and are destined to remain in 2nd Physical until what would have been their normal death date.
Ego
A division of our psyche or self which is the root cause of dualism or the seeming separation between us as man and us as the Divine. The ego is that part of us which serves as the conscious organized mediator between who we are as a person and who we are in reality. Ego creates a false identity in ourselves by functioning in both our perception of and our adaptation to reality. 
ESP (aka) Extra Sensory Perception
ESP is the awareness of information not gained through the five recognized physical senses but sensed with the mind.
Ethereal Body
Also known as as the Astral body - it is the identical duplicate of the physical body in the Astral plane.